Project at the helm for transport policy discussions in Turku

23 June, 2014

During the recent Baltic Sea Days in Turku, Finland, the BSR
TransGovernance project was involved in the making of two sessions
which dealt with the opportunities of multi-level governance for
optimising transport policy frameworks in the Baltic Sea
Region.

The Baltic Sea Days took place during the first week of June and
during the 3rd and 4th of June, the city saw the joint Baltic
Development Forum Summit and Annual Forum for the EU Strategy for
the Baltic Sea Region. The events were truly cross-sectoral
focusing on the horizontal coordination of initiatives to address
joint challenges in a harmonised way.

As a back to back event to the larger conferences, the BSR
TransGovernance arranged the first leg of unveiling and discussing
project findings. The event gathered around 40 participants that
engaged in discussing results from the project's work on different
reference scales. The findings were tested on the audience through
a set of questions utilizing mentometer technology. The results can
be downloaded on the project website.

Ulla Tapaninen representing City of Helsinki presented the
Helsinki-Tallinn case.

During the summit itself, the management of the project was
given the confidence by the European Commission to co-arrange a
session on embedding TEN-T policy in the Baltic Sea Region
transport policy frameworks. One main highlight from the discussion
was that it is crucial to be able to find solutions to merge
top-down (TEN-T policy implementation) and bottom-up (existing
corridor cooperation structures) approaches, and make this
combination manageable. Presentations from the TEN-T session are
available at http://www.bsr2014.eu/presentations/

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